Ten years ago, I would had just graduated with Green and learnt a Back Kick and a Spin Kick. 

The Celtic Otherworlds

Mediaeval Guilds 

In my Work, The Guild Council, and later, the Guild Combine, sold everything and were not only the financiers of Armies, but the equippers, managers, and trainers.  This saved the Nobles from dying unnecessarily (TMMHV), and later, in more democratic eras, meant that only Professional Soldiers fought wars -- against each other -- friends, brothers, lovers -- all for pay in the same Guild, simply hired by different Patrons.

When the Sphere of Stars was established, life on the Inside reverted to this system far more than the centuries and millennia of the space age.  Within the Sphere, all Wonders were crafted, tailored to the end user/customer (although post-currency) such that the Great Works granted every wish and whim on the instant.  Sphere Citizens were post-literate, and in the Subjective Millennium they experienced in a shared calendrical sense, grew completely dependent upon the Emperor and His Will.  Those few who fled and survived the Starshock found themselves on planets where they had to work the genetic Caste-Clan tasks breed into their ancestors.

It was as harsh a wake-up call as being born.

All, Comers Into The World.

Love,

As we head into the weekend, I hope your days and nights are filled with a nice mix of fun and excitement, rest and peace, drive and recollection.  Happy- and well-deserved congratulations on your 10th anniversary of, July.

Pen and Ink Artist 

[Patreon Update] 

First Benefits have landed and now awaiting my Disability appointment in early August.

It had got pretty rough, but the place I'm at now affords me the freedom in safety to continue my work and guitar journey.  Big breakthroughs in all areas, and I am looking forward to sharing snippets with you here.

My old keyboard died, and now I am getting used to an even smaller (60%) footprint, so I'm still making little typing errors along the way -- always a bit of an irk which interrupts the writing flow, but I'm making strides.

Back on track.

I think that you will have to expect a decrease in the free content I have posted here, as I have been squandering my content on a largely unresponsive audience.
Something I posted a few months back lost me a few subscribers, I'm not certain what it was, but I hope they are doing well pursuing content more in-line with their comfort zone and to their liking.

GR&SB II continues apace, and I'm ramping up for the big confrontation of the series in the first systematic impact upon the world by the adversary force.  The battle in which Marcher/Lord Marche fought the undead was just a feint.

Again, there will be snippets here and there, but I feel that my interests are best served behind a paywall, and away from prying eyes.

Have a great June.

Regatta de Blanc